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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1999
Clay S. Clement, Rock Tavern, NY (US);
Michael S. Gordon, Lincolndale, NY (US);
Rodney A. Kendall, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Werner Stickel, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic beam lithography tool providing dimensional stability. The tool includes three or more deflection plates above an aperture diaphragm which allows the beam to be deflected away from an aperture and along a two-dimensional locus on the aperture diaphragm which is approximately symmetrical around the aperture therein. By doing so, the aperture diaphragm is symmetrically heated by the power of the charged particle beam and the geometry of the charged particle beam device is stabilized against variance in geometry of the device to a very small tolerance.